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' T. H. GRIFFITH BED Filed Jan. 24, 1922 2 sheets-sheet 1 Apr. 3, 1923. 1,450,497

T. H. GRIFFITH BED Filed Jan. 24, 1922 2 sheets-sheet 2 A 7'TOAP/KEKS.

Patented Apr. 3, 1923.

steam THOMAS H. GRIFFITH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

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Application filed January 24, 1922. Serial No. 531,475.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. GRIFFITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de 'scription, reference being had to the acdrawings, forming part of this companying specification;

My invention relates to beds principally for infants, and has as its chief object the provision of a babys bed which can be easily taken apart, folded up and carried from one lace to another.

In my 'atent No. 1,385,045, dated July 19, 1921, I show and describe a bed built alongthe same lines as the one forming the basis of this present invention, and the obarrangement of parts to be hereinafter more this is naturally notholes specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure Itisa perspective view of'a complate-bed built according to my invention,

Figure 2 is a detail section showing one ofthe bolt and hook devices.

Figure 3' is a perspective view showing the bolt and hook plates separately.

Figure 4 is an elevation showing a partial adjustment of one of the side bars on a corner 0st. I

The 'ame of the bed is made up of four corner posts 1. There are two upper side bars 2 and two upper end bars 3., There are also two lower side bars 4 and two lower end bars 5.

I have shown a uniform system of mountmight be (purposes of economy esirable. j Thus I provide in the corner posts for bolt 6 at each level for two bolts, i. e., there will be four bolt holes in each post, two

ing all bars, which, of course, varied, although for in the county of Hamilton and greater simplicity of above and two below, and the holes of each set of two Will be at right angles to each other.

Into these holes are set bolts having shanks 7, wing nuts 8 and cross pins 9, forming T-shaped heads. The side and end bars have screwed thereon in any suitable way the plates 10, which have forked flanges 11 turned up therefrom, said flanges having their ends bent as at 11 In assembling the bars and posts, the bolts are inserted in the post holes and the wing nuts mounted thereon, and the hooks on thebars hooked down over the shanks of the bolts with the T heads lying beyond the hooks. The wing nuts are then tightened,

which clamps the hooks between the T heads,"

and the sides of the posts. As shown in Figure 1, the top bars are usually arranged with the hooks on the downwardly, although they mayextend in from the sides, as shown in Figure 4, or

up from below, as shown in Figure 2. The position of the bottom bars will be adjusted to take 'up the slack of the fabric structure,

as will be noted.

For the balance of the bed, thetwo to side bars are inserted in the hems or tunne s 12, of the fabric strip 13, and the two top plates extending end bars into like hems in the fabric strip' 14. The insertion of the said bars into the said hems will be accomplished before setting up the bed, and by preference the oporator will first arrange the four bottom cross bars in place and bolt them tightly. He will then bolt down the top side bars so that the fabric thereon will pam down and around the two bottom side bars, and will then bolt the end top bars into the frame, passing the fabric piece a secured thereto down and around the' bottom end bars underneath the other piece of fabric.

There will be provided by the above, a base and four sides for a small crib or bed,

ing bars may be revolved on its mounting after first loosening the bolts, so that it takes a position to take up slack that may have 'developedthrough stretching of the fabric.

Turning all four bottom bars around from a position with the hooks plates down to a position with them extending up,'will impart quite a take-"up to the fabric passed around the frame.

The frictional rasp of therbolt's on the hook plates and t e presence of the turnedon the mounting in which any of .themounting and stretchin ends or hook-like portions 11 will easily support any weight that the frame will hold, even if all the hooks in the bed are turned upwardly.

I have dealt with the advantages generally of the 'bed'structure in my patent above noted. and wish to call attention to the fact that the bed described above can be rolled into a thin, narrow roll, as in said patent. In fachthe package formed by the bed, when rolled up, with the sticks inside the canvas or fabric parts, can be shipped .in a carton five and one half inches square and three and one half feet long.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A means for mounting a fabric retaining bar in devices of the character described.

comprising a bolt in one member having a nut at one end and a fixed T-shaped head on the other end, and a hook-shaped element on the other member adapted to straddle the bolt shank behind the T-shaped head, for the purpose described.

2. In a. baby crib or the like, the combination with corner posts, of side and end bars, said bars having strips of fabric secured thereto for the topmost set, and the lowermost set adapted toform a stretching frame for the fabric strips, said bars having an eccentric pivotal mounting to the corner posts, bolts in the corner posts, plates on the bars having hooks to engage over the shanks of the bolts, and heads for l the bolts to lie against the hooks and having a T-shape, as and for the pur ose'described.

' sT'HOMA'S' H..(RIFFITH. 

